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Young Man Playing a Violin

Young Man Playing a Violin

Pietro Paolini

Artist
Pietro Paolini
(Italian, 1603 - 1681)
Title
Young Man Playing a Violin
Date
1629
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
33 3/8 x 27 1/2 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Accession No.
61.4.14
Classification
Paintings
Geography
Italy

Related

1 July 1950, sold [then attributed to Angelo Caroselli] by Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi (Rome and Florence, Italy) to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation (New York, NY); September 1961, gifted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison; 1967, transferred to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art].

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  • Musica Picta: Santa Cecilia e l'imago musicae tra Cinque e Seicento: ArtificioSkira, 12/15/2000–6/15/2001
  • Samuel H. Kress Study Collection of Italian Renaissance Art: Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 11/23/1959–11/30/1961

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